Submitting Your Own Digo, To use in Furcadia! Options

[Migoto]

I'm sure this has been suggested many times, but I can't find any...

It'd be kinda nice if you could submit your own digo. Perhaps none of the dragon species interest you and you'd rather have an Eastern Dragon for your character. You could submit it and wait for approval. Guidelines would be good quality, of course (meaning nothing blocky or having very poor walking positions), appropriate, and originality (which makes this different than adding onto a digo; it has to be your own local).

It would probably have to cost a lot, maybe 100$ or more, so that you won't have too many people walking around with odd-looking digos. And you can only have one at a time; if you wanted to change it, it would cost a fee to switch it out. Kind of like a portrait I guess.

It would be kinda cool, I suppose. Cons are art theft, deciding what "good quality" is, etc etc.

[Annex]

My best suggestion is to create your own dream. In it, you can set two locals - then if you decide you need more, there is SS and then GP.

Art theft would be guaranteed to happen, because of how dynamic avatars work. Your Furcadia client downloads the patch to a hidden folder, which isn't really all that hidden if you know what to search for and the "How To" is located on these very forums. Encryption is a possibility, but it creates lag.

This would also create a problem with the iFurc app as well. Users of that would see the size of the program swell - what happens if the iPod has no memory left to download another avatar?

...I think this has been suggested before too, if I am not mistaken.

[Migoto]

My reason for suggesting is so that the locals within a dream could be brought out into the community of Furcadia, or "see the light", I guess.

But you make some good points about how it would be very difficult and troublesome. :c

[Damadar]

The cheapest I could ever see DEP letting 1 year of this go for is $500. That's $500 a year to be able to have your own 'custom' avatar that nobody else could have, due to the time and effort involved with verifying that you have permission to use the avatar, and making sure it works.

Is that worth $500 a year to you? =p

[Kamose]

I'm sure this has been suggested many times, but I can't find any...

Frequently Suggested Avatars is an archive of suggestions by players and responses by DEP. It's pinned to the top of this board. :-)

Custom Avatars or Avatar Spaces: The ability to upload your own avatar for everyone to see on main maps. In the past, this suggestion has been rejected on the grounds that it would create massive lag and that it would give players too much control over the appearance of main maps. However, Felorin recently stated that DEP hopes to make custom avatars feasible once the technological and design issues have been worked out.

• Mar 27 2011
• Jan 22 2011
• Jun 8, 2010: Felorin discusses the possibility of custom avatars: "Long term, we do want to work out when technology will make this feasible without it being a significant source of lag. Computers and internet connections get faster each year, eventually it'll be practical. At that point we can try to work out the design and social issues to see what we could do about fitting it into the game."
• Aug 2 2009
• Sep 5 2008
• Aug 16 2008
• Aug 6 2008
• Jun 10 2008
• Jan 21 2008
• Nov 10 2007
• Sep 28 2007: Petition for custom avatars. Felorin, Gar, Artex, and Damadar discuss some of the technical problems with custom avatars.
• Jul 1 2007
• Aug 11 2006: Custom avatars.
• Jul 31 2006
• May 10 2006
• Apr 18 2006
• Feb 26 2006: Custom avatar as one of many suggestions.
• Feb 3 2006
• Jan 24 2006
• Dec 19 2005
• Sep 15 2005
• May 8 2005
• Sep 13 2004: Avatar space + port space for life.
• Sep 2 2004
• Aug 20 2004
• Jan 27 2004: Detailed post by Talzhemir about DEP's reasons for not having custom avatars.
• Nov 25 2003
• Nov 13 2003
• Sep 26 2003
• Jul 22 2003: Leticia's opinion of why custom avatars would not be feasible.
• Nov 23 2002
• Oct 11 2002: Talzhemir discusses the problems with custom avatars.
• Oct 10 2002
• Jul 11 2002
• Mar 29 2002
• Feb 17 2002
• Feb 15 2002: Comments by Farrier.
• Feb 3 2002
• Nov 27 2001: Ability to specify your "preferred species," which could be seen on any map by anyone with a copy of the patch file.
• Nov 26 2001

[Damadar]

Oh, hey, lookie there. I was being smart.